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Yeaah. If you’re new, please add something to your blog to make you look real. If you’re a woman, I’d advise against making your pfp a picture of you if you don’t have any posts… because that’s what the bots infesting this site tend to look like. Please make it clear you’re an actual person and not a spam bot, thanks :)

There's a new swarm of totally real ladies with empty blogs following me, and I'm blocking and reporting them left and right. If you are an actual human person with a brand new account trying to follow me, I urge you to please post *anything at all* on your blog so that when I go to check who the heck you are, I can tell you aren't just a bot-encrusted void. Just a simple "hello this is my lurker account I use to follow people" is enough.

[image description: The words “I’d rather be cringe than mean” in rainbow block letters with a drawing of a group of kids cosplaying underneath. The characters the kids are dressed as include Foxy from Five Nights at Freddy’s, Naruto, Sonic, and others. End ID.]

be free!!

Aww, how sweet- you’re one of my favorites too ❤️

If you’re not on the list, I still like you and appreciate you! I’m just gonna think of some people who make me smile and I feel a connection with, and if you’re not on this list it doesn’t mean you don’t fit those criteria!

@that-bug-kid you seem like someone I would like to befriend irl and your enthusiasm for insects is great. I also really appreciate your disability posts- they help me support (and avoid being hurtful to) people with disabilities different from my own. Same goes for you, @sleepycrowhours , except replace “insects” with “Fire Emblem: Awakening” and “befriend irl” with “figure out why you’re so deeply weird” (the second half of that sentence is a joke). Also I’m pretty sure I started following you just because your PFP was Henry. You are the Henry person to me lol

@anyconstellation You were our first tumblr mutual ❤️ I enjoy your writing and creativity, and your cat is adorable!

@neutrallmilfhotel you’re slightly unhinged and I like it

@bunnyhopsystem We don’t really know y’all yet, but you all seem cool and it’s exciting to meet other Plurals!

let's be fr here, when u think about ur favourite mutual, who is it? let's start a chain and maybe some arguments lmao

@kyezblog @michael-wheela @chaoticbyler @byleravclob @byler-alarmist @clownpallete @do-open-alive-inside25 @dont-open-dead-inside-25 @foodiewithdahoodie @ghostlycleric @holyvirgilscriptures @imactuallyreallycool @ken-is-just-ken @lovelylumax @microwaveonwheels @rinaslayawamma @starmanbyler @unrepentant-byler-shipper

I feel it would be helpful to share this article I found by @urbancripple regarding the correct usage of the accessible stall in a public restroom; if you don’t need the accessible stall, you shouldn’t use it, even if the others are all full. As an able-bodied person, I am ashamed to not have been aware of this, and I wanted to spread the message.

urbancripple.com

If the Accessible Stall is the Only One Available, Should I Use It?

I’m abled, and I was always taught that if the other stalls are free, to use those, but if there’s a long line to help it move faster by usi

The author has answered other questions regarding needing accessible restrooms and further clarified that the need for the accessible stall or accessible restroom doesn’t have to be because of a mobility issue, but it does have to be a need rather than a matter of convenience. Here are links to the other questions and answers about this:

Using the accessible stall to avoid an accident

When the only gender-neutral restroom is the accessible one

Using the accessible restroom for sensory sensitivity

Just one stall in the men’s room

Could you do the ADHD diagnosis poll but with autism?

yis indeed, I wont queue it so they can go out into the wild together

once again, not at all disparaging self dx this is just curiosity on numbers and where people learn about it

(pls reblog for sample size etc)

follow for more occasional useless polls :)

i don't think people take me too serious when i say i'm legally blind. Like, guys I am legally never allowed to drive, I need assistance with a lot of stuff because I can't see. People both irl and online tend to be like "oh but you're not THAT BAD OFF" it's not a thing of whether my eyes are "that bad off" it doesn't matter, they're still blind. i still use magnifying and screen readers. i'm learning braille because my eyes are getting progressively worse and I'd like to be able to still read.

I may not be totally blind, but that's the thing, a lot of blind people AREN'T Totally blind. Blindness is a spectrum. and i don't think a lot of people realize that. And I'm just as valid in my blindness as someone on the spectrum with better eyesight than me, or someone with worse.

(This is OK to reblog. I hope that sighted people who might read this really get it into their heads that blindness is a spectrum...)

if you're hitting a wall with your tumblr donation post, you can try these subreddits out

these subreddits exist for the sole purpose of helping people, so you may have better luck there

NOTE: some of these subreddits require you to be an active member of reddit with post/comment karma for you to be able to seek help in them - you can try seeking help with an empty account but you may not have much luck.

r/Assistance

r/RandomActsOfPetFood

r/RandomKindness

r/Charity

r/care

r/borrow

r/gofundme

i will try to keep this updated - feel free to reblog/reply/etc with any other resources you can think of and i'll add them to this post

** up to date as of 5th july 2023 **

i’m the opposite of ‘i liked it before it became popular’ i only discover new things to like once they’re not popular anymore

please know that being disabled does not make you incapable of being ableist .

have faced ableism from other disabled people . who thought they know more about my experience with my disabilities than I do . or who thought that me being disabled is some how " threatening " them being disabled too , as if can not both be disabled .

have had other disabled people make rude comments about my disabilities . when I said that what they said was ableist , they question me , say " but I disabled " .

yes , you also disabled , but can still be ableist / say ableist things .

you not immune to say rude things / make mistake . that is ok . you just need admit when you make mistake or say rude things or be ableist . accept it happen some time and learn from it . otherwise , still being ableist .

ignoring disabled people when they tell you being ableist is being more ableist . listen to disabled people , including when you are disabled too .

[Image Description from alt text: Disability pride flag next to text that reads: This user thinks disability pride month is just as important as queer pride month.]

I think I have one

this post made me laugh so hard

Alright.

You ready for a hard 'tag your oc' challenge?

Tag an oc who doesn't have childhood trauma. At all. Who's family is still alive.

I'll wait.

rb and put in tags how many ppl your tumblr icon has killed

The Robot Apocalypse came. Cities are empty, you stayed since you’re almost out of insulin and will die soon anyway. The robots find you and while processing you one of them sees your insulin pump and asks if you want to apply for dual citizenship, since the pump technically makes you a cyborg.

Pls do not reblog anything with the old disability pride flag, it does cause seizure and migraines, please use the new one which was created by the same person with the feedbacks of many other disabled people.

This is the safe one:

Dont use the zigzag one, your making disabled space inaccessible for a part of the community.

I’m gonna say this again since folks keep tagging popular blogs in that tumblr blackout post with not a second thought about how disabled folks will be affected by it

First off- starting an indefinite blackout from the start of disability pride month IS ableism. Intentional or not. I do not care if it’s a “statement about accessibility.” You cannot talk like you care about disabled people by silencing our voices. Majority of disabled folks I’ve seen have been explaining over and over again why this is a monumentally shit idea which is just going to hurt us.

Second- We are not Reddit. So you can’t copy paste something that worked there and hope that’ll work here. Do we not remember the blackouts in the past that did not fucking work? Also- I say this as someone who is disabled and cares deeply about accessibility- there is an extreme difference in the severity of the issues that are going on with Reddit and what’s going on here. Poorly review tumblr, stop buying crabs, stop fucking blazing posts. Dude. We are also not in a union or employed by tumblr. WE CAN’T BE SCABS.

Thirdly- I’m presuming that most people who’ve been reblogging the og post have other social media sites they can go to. That they can easily go to like, Instagram, that they have friends irl, and they have the ability to leave the house. A lot of disabled people on here don’t have that. They’ve been bullied off social media platforms like Instagram or Twitter or Tiktok for being disabled, they don’t have a solid friendship group in real life and some of them can’t actually leave the house without help. I don’t want disabled people to be completely alone during disability pride month. They deserve to at least deserve to keep their support network on the funny hellsite.

And if I sound angry it’s because I am. I’m angry about disabled people being lowest priority yet again. I’m angry at our own month being used against us because of “accessibility”. I’m angry thinking about disabled people being isolated during a time that should be celebratory. I’m not being chronically online or overreacting or “trying to be an activist.” I’m just a disabled person who would absolutely be negatively impacted by this blackout that has apparently been timed with our accessibility needs in mind but no caring for how disabled people will be effected.

I don’t know if the plans have been updated. Honestly I struggled to even read the og post because of the font and the inaccessible use of language. But I do want ableds to know that they cannot say they’re participating in this blackout to benefit disabled people.

Feel free to tag anyone you want in this post btw I want ableds to understand

Ok, if anyone is looking for a Fire Emblem Awakening longfic… I just read this work by jonagold on AO3 and enjoyed it so, so much. It explores the relationship between the future children and their present selves after the game’s end, particularly how the young Lucina grows up in a time of peace with the her from an alternate future in her life…. It reads like a coming-of-age novel and for me, it was a treat to find.

So these are the blorbos that got me excited about them being a System, and they are and no one treats them badly for it or is weird about it in the source media, this makes my heart happy

Guess That Ship Tournament: S4 Round 3

steal your heart

Master thief finds himself fooling a detective to get away with his treasure, falls in love. Detective doesn't know how to trust and is too depressed to get away on a whim. Somehow, they end up in a life-or-death situation, learn to trust each other, confess their love and... part ways in the middle of the night, one left alone behind by the other after a promise of a future together.

Contrasting Colors

Two brothers; Marigold and Hydrangea.

They share a body. It is unclear when or how this happened; it just *is*. At first, they aren't even aware of each other's existence. Eventually, they start talking to each other by passing along messages through another character. Marigold expresses his distain for humans, and Hydrangea expresses his desire to trust and form bonds with them. Marigold claims that he wants to take their body for himself, and Hydrangea wants to be Marigold's friend and brother. Eventually, they do make amends and come to care for one another.

[Image Description: Dr. Olivia Octavia’s from Into the Spider-Verse reaches for the robot GLADOS from the Portal series. Both characters have a pink “blush” drawn on. End ID.]

[Image Description from alt text: A badly edited image of Mettaton from Undertale with an arm around Troupe Master Grimm from Hollow Knight. End ID.]

[Image Description from alt text: A badly edited image of Mettaton from Undertale with an arm around Troupe Master Grimm from Hollow Knight. Both characters have a pink blush and the background is full of pink hearts. End ID.]

[Image Description from alt text: A badly edited image of Mettaton from Undertale with an arm around Troupe Master Grimm from Hollow Knight, depicting them as blushing and in love, in a heart-shaped frame. Text above and below the heart reads “Dance with me, darling…” and “The audience awaits.” End ID.]

This came through my dash, so here’s my cringey crossover crackship: Mettaton from Undertale and Grimm from Hollow Knight. These definitely-gay deadly dancers both live for the show… I can’t help but imagine the chaos of a combined act! They’d also argue because Grimm’s aesthetic choices and general style are way more tasteful than Mettaton’s though lol 😆

I think we should bring back that thing everyone did in 2014 where you badly photoshop two characters from entirely different media together to look like they’re in love. This is my proposal for doc ock x glados please consider

I feel like lots of people are forgetting about how queer readings of media has always been gay culture. It's broadened out to headcannons and AUs and such. I feel that usually when someone expresses their personal queer reading of a character who was never written to be queer there is always backlash and lots of hate to that person.

The Office could be read as a lesbian love story between a dyke and the best friend she's in love with who's already engaged to a man. Many sapphics find Jim Halpert's situation relatable and has drawn Jim as a lesbian. There are paragraphs and fanfictions that explain the queerness they see in Jim Halpert. Yes the reality is that Jim Halpert is just a cishet white boy who's an ok person. People who hate on these queer readings are usually ignorant.

The thing is I don't think that queer readings and headcannons only come from a desire for representation. I think it's a from of self expression.

Usually when people talk about queer rep and queerbait its in the context of television, cartoons, and books. It's the marketable representation. Authentic queerness in art comes from the sheer desire to express and dream and imagination. Imagination is a wonderful thing!!

Let queer people have their headcannons. Let people draw characters as a ethnicity and race that's different from canon. Let disabled artists people draw and write their favorite characters as disabled.

How dare people insert themselves in media and feel joy. You're a bully if you think that's cringe and you need to grow the fuck up

Linking to my Grima Propaganda from last round :)

TLDR: Incredibly cool giant apocalypse dragon who has been repeatedly betrayed and attacked by humans, his worshippers are awful and not even he likes them, super complicated and interesting relationship with his unwilling vessel who may or may not actually be Grima himself reincarnated.

Losers Bracket Round 3: Match 1

Palutena(Kid Icarus) vs Grima(Fire Emblem Awakening)

Contrasting Colors makes me go… System? System!?!

It’s very cool that they see each other as siblings like we do :)

*P.S.: “ship” in this context is just short for relationship and doesn’t imply romance

Guess That Ship Tournament: S4 Round 2

paintfood

Local hare with imposter syndrome who has been dooming the world through her issues meets dog who also has imposter syndrome as a recent thing who has looked up to her for many years and is now taking her burden. One of them is a lot more tepid while the other is super friendly, and they ultimately end up being the companion the other needs, especially for the hare, when they end up on the same level as friends. They respect each other so very much but idolize the other maybe a little too much sometimes

Contrasting Colors

Two brothers; Marigold and Hydrangea.

They share a body. It is unclear when or how this happened; it just *is*. At first, they aren't even aware of each other's existence. Eventually, they start talking to each other by passing along messages through another character. Marigold expresses his distain for humans, and Hydrangea expresses his desire to trust and form bonds with them. Marigold claims that he wants to take their body for himself, and Hydrangea wants to be Marigold's friend and brother. Eventually, they do make amends and come to care for one another.

if you're not obsessed with anything weird and niche please try harder. stop going outside for a while. consider getting weirder about the things you already like

Grima Propaganda! (Because I deeply appreciate this messed up villain)

The Fell Dragon Grima, the dark deity bent on eradicating humanity, the bringer of the zombie apocalypse, and a lot of fans’ blorbo.

When you first meet them in Fire Emblem Awakening, they’re the Big Bad villain with little actual characterization, but that didn’t stop the fandom from loving them, and they got more lore and characterization in DLC and other games in the franchise. There is soo much Murder Dragon Romanticization in the fandom and it seems to be running on sheer swag and charisma. It’s also true that canon is enough of a mess that you could make the case they’re much less evil than it seems… or maybe that’s the fandom talking. There are Tumblr folk who celebrate “Grimas” every year. Grima should absolutely be a Tumblr Sexyman: he’s the villain certain people love, dark and mysterious and eldritch and full of issues and trauma. The fan fiction this character has spawned includes some of my favorite fanworks.

Their (unwilling?) vessel is none other than the amnesiac player character Robin, who was born into an evil cult for the purpose of bringing their dark god back to life. Robin and Grima are so interconnected that the death of one means the death of the other (a great source of angst, at least until Robin is revived by the power of friendship). A lot of people headcanon that Grima and Robin are actually the same entity, and the varying interpretations of Grima and Robin and how they’re connected are such fun.

Grima is also:

-an artificial being whose creator tried to kill them

-a dragon monstrosity with six eyes and six wings that’s so huge the final battle is held on top of their back

-referred to with mostly he/him but kinda inconsistent pronouns in game, probably some genderfuckery here

-I headcanon Grima is Above Gender

-parent to a Very Traumatized child (or several)

-a GIGANTIC effing DRAGON with six eyes and six wings

-I keep wanting to add more but I can’t let my brain be consumed any further

Losers Bracket Round 2: Match 3

Venti/Lord Barbatos(Genshin Impact) vs Grima(Fire Emblem Awakening)

5 songs we actually listen to:

Closet Monster by The Jellyrox, because it felt surprisingly relatable when we were figuring ourselves out as a System and it’s now a sentimental thing

Beautiful Ride by Heather Nova, because it still feels kinda relatable (we like to pretend putting up with each other is a choice XD)

Fallen Down (Reprise) by Toby Fox, because Katlyn is Undertale trash and so is our (non-Headmate) roommate /lighthearted

One Of Us by New Politics, because the lyrics uphold and appreciate community and platonic love ❤️

Honey I’m Home by GHOST, because it’s the go-to song for the Hollow Knight fandom to make AMVs and such with and also because BUGS

🎶✨when u get this, put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, if you're comfortable, send this ask/tag 10 of your followers (positivity is cool) 🎶✨

Thanks to @stalegravyart for tagging me! :3

(in no particular order:)

2econd 2ight 2eer - Will Wood

Little Dark Age - MGMT

Out Like A Light - The Honeysticks

Devil Town - Cavetown

Hayloft II - Mother Mother

I'm pretty sure I've been tagged in this one before lmao but hey new songs this time

Tagging(no pressure):

@mushroom-frawg @another-white-hole @trans-pan-clown @spectruminterests @goddessofcrazy @the-beasts-have-arrived @tristenthekitty

Aaah i don't know who else to tag

a sensory nightmare

Ghost has ADHD and autism. They’re the most neurodivergent little mf to ever break your kneecaps.

i'm biased toward vessels with pupils

Okay, I do enjoy and appreciate Rosalina. But Shade Lord has a special place in my heart. Not only are they the most powerful being in their world, the God of Gods, the incarnation of Void and Nothingness itself…. but they’re also Just A Little (agender) Guy! Look at this cute little bug!

Now behold their true Shade Lord form!

They have such swag, vote for this creepy-cute darkness deity :)

Higher Bracket Round 2: Match 10

Rosalina(Super Mario) vs Shade Lord(Hollow Knight)

To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.

USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!

Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:

/r/Assistance /r/legaladvice /r/RandomKindness /r/Charity /r/care /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza /r/Food_Pantry https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfPetFood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfChristmas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/almosthomeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless

/r/freelance  /r/povertyfinance /r/thrifty /r/borrow /r/gofundme

/r/depression /r/familysupport /r/transitions 

I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web  GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE